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The Linux Counter has been running for 10 years with the "ISO 8859-1"
character set. In 1993, this was the only reasonable character set to
choose; in 2004, it is clearly insufficient to represent the names of
people and places registered in the Linux Counter.
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It also makes sense that the Linux Counter should reflect the fact
that Linux is one of the most internationalized and globalized systems
out there!
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Therefore, the Linux Counter is converting its internal data
representation and its web pages to the character set that today comes
closest to being an "universal" character set: Unicode - in
particular, the UTF-8 representation of Unicode.
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We expect some "teething problems" during the changeover, but expect
that these will all be solved before 2005 has gone very far.
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This is also a key component in making it possible to translate the
Linux Counter's user interface into multiple languages.

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